Jeff GeerlingJul 26, 2023

Michael DeHaan (original author of Ansible) thinks the time is ripe for the world to see a Rust-based Ansible alternative—with potentially 90-95% compatibility with exsiting playbooks—that can scale to 50-100k systems through a new message bus option.

https://laserllama.substack.com/p/a-new-it-automation-project-moving

A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit - An Invitation

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Show threadChris BensenJul 26, 2023
@geerlingguy Not ecstatic about the choice of Rust. If it were me I'd use Java and @graalvm
Show threadminecraftchest1

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I don't see a problem with rust. I would imagine that it would continue to use YAML and most people wouldn't need to touch the rust side of it.

And doesn't rust support static linking into one binary. I would think that would make installation even easier.

@geerlingguy @graalvm

Jul 27, 2023 at 1:57amWeb
Show threadChris BensenJul 27, 2023
@minecraftchest1 @geerlingguy @graalvm GraalVM has a similar fewture called barive image. I'm not oposed to Rust, I just don't understand the hype. It has some nice features but it appears to be a lot of hype. Look at it this way. Cobal and Fortran were common languages but now are relegated to very specialized fields with millions of lines of code. Nobody wants to rewrite it so a few people have job security. Because of this, I'd choose Go over Rust.